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Steady-State Model

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The steady-state model adds the control for the system boundary, or more precisely the process boundary, in addition to the control processes of the previous chapter, like feedback and feedforward. The two previous chapters have emphasised the (primary) process and its control, based on the premise that a process constitutes an interaction between flowing elements (as system) and resources (as an other system). In addition, systems operate in relation to their environment and interact with other elements from that environment.

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    Rob Dekkers

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Dekkers, R. (2015). Steady-State Model. In: Applied Systems Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10846-9_6

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